EOTD Chanel Stylo Yeux Contour des Yeux Longue Tenue in Jade 50 (Waterproof Long Lasting Liner)

Chanel’s Stylo Yeux in Jade is a pretty shade of turquoise, it is not as green as I expected for a colour called “Jade” but more of a blue green with a soft satiny shimmer to it. This is a fun, lovely and unexpected colour to be in Chanel’s permanent line because Chanel usually launches their more unusual colours as limited edition. The liner is easy to use and comes with a sharpner at the end of the pencil. It is soft and thin, I was able to draw a nice thin line close to my lash line and thicken the line if I wish. What I like about these twisty self-sharpening liners is that I will never scratch myself with the wood from pencil liners. That tends to happen when the pencil is not sharpened properly. I find the colour a bit sheer and needed a bit of layering to achieve opacity and to cover up bald patchy spots. The liner dries within seconds and it is smudge proof and waterproof.  I tend to rub my eyes by mid-afternoon or end of the day and the liner did not move at all. I needed to use MAC cleansing oil to cleanly take off all the liner.

A LBD for Your Eyes? EOTD Stila Smudge Pot in Little Black Dress

Last year Stila released a collection of Stila Loves Barbie collection which includes three smudge pots in Purple Pumps, Cobalt Clutch and Little Black Dress. Smudge Pots are gel liners much like MAC Fluidlines. I received a pot of Little Black Dress from a good friend of mine for my birthday. It is a gorgeous purplish black with pink sparkles. It reminds me of a gel creme version of MAC Mineralize shadow in Young Punk. In fact, I think Little Black Dress would make an excellent base for Young Punk. As an eyeliner, I find the Smudge Pot very smooth and pigmented, much like MAC Fluidlines; however, I do find Smudge Pots less drying then Fluidlines. These are smudge proof, budge proof and waterproof, but very easy to remove with water and eye makeup remover. I find these easier to remove than MAC Fluidlines, but I have only tried one colour, so it could just be this colour that is easy to remove. I love how the pink sparkles add dimension and pizzazz to the black. For daytime I wear it thinly lined but for nighttime, I wear this with either a smokey eye or purple and pink eyeshadows and Little Black Dress thickly winged tipped/cat eyed.

EOTD Smokey Teals: MAC Bough Grey, Birds & Berries, Vex and Shroom

Here is an EOTD using some items from Give Me Liberty of London and Art Supplies from MAC. I intended this to be a full FOTD but unfortunately, the full face pictures did not work out. I really liked it in real life but the pictures were just bleh. By the time I wash off my make up and looked at the pictures, I released that I didn’t blend my concealer probably. BOOH! Maybe I will do another full face attempt, but until then, enjoy!

Benefit Creaseless Cream Eyeshadow in Recess for eyeshadow base
MAC eyeshadow in Bough Grey for inner eye lid to middle of eye lid
MAC eyeshadow in Birds & Berries for outer eye lid to crease
MAC eyeshadow in Vex for above crease blend into Birds & Berries
MAC eyeshadow in Shroom to highlight brow bone
MAC Shadestick in Nurture to highlight inner corner of eye
MAC Pearlglide Intense Eyeliner in Undercurrent to line upper lash line and waterline
MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer for under eye area
Perscriptive Brow Shaping Kit 02 for filling in brows
Dior Diorshow Mascara Black

The Perfect Turquoise EOTD Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Liner in Flipside

Spring has just started barely three weeks ago and I am already thinking of summer. Everywhere I see cosmetics companies have at least one teal, blue-green, turquoise and aqua item. This colour range is just oh so gorgeous, with Pantone announcing that turquoise is the colour of the year. You will see a lot of similar blue-green colours. This beauty is the oh so fabulous Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Liner in Flipside. It is a beautiful shade of Caribbean Ocean blue to me, but U/D calls it a bright teal. It is a clear blue with just a slight hint of green and shimmer. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on liners are gel liners that are creamy and smooth, and well they glide on like gel! These also stay on forever, until I decide to take it off with an oil cleanser. U/D 24/7 liners are waterproof and smudge proof.

EOTD MAC Art Supplies Pearlglide Intense Eyeliner in Undercurrent Swatch on Eyes

I have never seen such a gorgeous shade of  blue green. I have a few blue and green liners but this is my new favourite. I think it just makes my brown eyes *pop* and compliments my medium NC 35 skin tone very well. When I saw photographs of Undercurrent I knew I must have this, which is my favourite colour of the six releases. I even like it better than Designer Purple, which I skipped for now. I usually have a weakness for purple but right now I am in a teal phase. Undercurrent is a blue-green teal with turquoise iridescent glitter. I think it is the prettiest of the bunch. The Intense version of the Pearlglide liners are  much smoother and pigmented than the previous Pearlglide liners. Intense Pearlglides also set better, becoming smudge proof within minutes, while the older liners smudges slightly. Read a more detailed review of Intense Pearlglide liners and my EOTD of Black Line. Enjoy the swatches, but excuse the redness in my eyes.

EOTD MAC Art Supplies Collection Pearlglide Intense Eyeliners in Black Line Swatch on Eyes

Above: MAC Pearlglide Intense Eyeliner Black Line

Black Line is black with gold glitter. I think the black and gold mixture create a greenish tinge to the colour. This is a very wearable colour for day or night. I will wear this thinly on my upper lash line during the day, but wear it thicker and line my liner lash line for the evening. Black Line liner reminds me of MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Gilt by Association, which is a black eyeshadow with gold bronze pearl and Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Liner in Stash.

Check out the review of MAC Art Supplies Collection Pearlglide Intense Eyeliners

MAC Art Supplies Collection Pearlglide Intense Eyeliners in Black Line and Undercurrent

Above: MAC Pearlglide Intense Eyeliners in Black Line and Undercurrent

Remember the fabulous MAC Pearlglide Eye Liners that MAC launches as limited edition from time to time? Last time were Rave (Violet with purple glitter) and Black Russian (Gray Black with silver glitter) from the Love that Look collection. Well this time MAC stepped it up a notch by launch a Pearlglide INTENSE Eyeliner for the Art Supplies Collection released in April. While regular Pearlglide liners are very smooth, Pearlglide Intense liners are just a tad smoother and softer. These glide on like gel liners. I agree with other bloggers that Intense Pearlglides are similar in texture  as Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Liners, but I think I these are much smoother than the U/D liners. I find Intense Pearlglides more vibrant and pigmented than the regular Pearlglides. To me regular Pearlglides has a slight sheerness to it. Intense Pearliglides are also more glittery and iridescent. While I find regular Pearlglides wear well and are long lasting, they do smudge ever so slightly. In contrast, Intense Pearlglides dry to a similar texture as MAC Fluidlines and liquid eyeliners. Intense Pearlglides dries within 5 minutes to a smudgeproof and budgeproof finish. I can’t even rub it off; however they are easily removable with cleanser and water. Much easier and cleaner to remove than Fluidlines! These Intense Pearlglide liners are all very pretty and I am tempted to get more but for my small and modest haul I picked Undercurrent and Black Line. Right now I am craving Almost Black and Designer Purple! Below are the product pictures and swatches but stay tuned for EOTD/swatches on my eyes.

Above: MAC Pearlglide Intense Eyeliner in Undercurrent and Black Line

When I saw photographs of Undercurrent I knew I must have this and it is my favourite colour of the six releases. I even like it better than Designer Purple, which I skipped for now. I usually have a weakness for purple but right now I am in a teal phase. Undercurrent is a blue-green teal with green iridescent glitter. I think it is the prettiest of the bunch.

Black Line is black with gold glitter. I think the black and gold mixture create a greenish tinge to the colour. This is a very wearable colour for day or night. I will wear this thinly on my upper lash line during the day, but wear it thicker and line my liner lash line for the evening. Black Line liner reminds me of MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow in Gilt by Association, which is a black eyeshadow with gold bronze pearl.

EOTD Pink, Silver and Black: Urban Decay Sphynx, Perversion and Gunmetal

I was playing around with the pink, silver and black in my Urban Decay Book of Shadows Volume II Kit. I rarely wear pinks and I think this is the first time I used this type of colour combo. While I like the blend of colours together, I didn’t really like the whole face’s final results or how the pictures turned out. Consequently, this posting is only of the eyes.

Urban Decay Shadow Primer Potion for eyeshadow base
Urban Decay eyeshadow in Sphynx for  inner eye corner to middle of lid
Urban Decay eyeshadow in  Perversion for outer eye corner
Urban Decay eyeshadow in Gunmetal for crease and dab a little bit in between Sphynx and Perversion to blend.
MAC Paint in Sublime Nature for brow bone hightlight
Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Liner in Zero for upper and lower lash lines
Perscriptives Brow Shaping Kit 02 for filling in brows
Dior Diorshow Mascara in Black for upper lashes
MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer for under eye

EOTD Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Colour Mascara Review and Swatches on Lashes

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Majestic (purple); Blue Blood (blue); Black Magic (black); and Envy (green)

I have not reviewed mascaras before because I am the worst person to model mascaras. My lashes are fine, short and very straight. They are barely visible without mascara. I usually need about 10 to 20 coats of mascara to get my desired effect. The same applies for volumizing mascaras, one to two coats are never enough for me. However, I thought these colour mascaras would be fun to test out and share with everybody.

After testing each of these mascaras, I find that they wear well for the day because they don’t smudge or flake. They are very easy to remove for a waterproof mascara and they remove cleanly too. However, I don’t find this mascara very volumizing even after my standard 10 to 20 coats. I find the formula very thin, wet and gooey. The brush is standard size, not too large or thin but the brush it is a little too big to get into the inner lash corners and I had trouble applying mascara for the finer inner lashes. I would have preferred to have a smaller brush to get to the inner lashes because with colour mascara full coverage is more critical compared to black mascara. After all, who wants obvious bald spots?

However, these mascaras do have some bright spots. I like the colours because they are pigmented and show up well on my lashes. They are waterproof but are easy to clean without a mess. They wear well throughout the day without flaking or smudging. I also find that the mascara separates my lashes well and does not clump. The colours are fun ranging from subtle to bright to classic. Medusa’s Makeup makes four colours: Blue Blood (blue), Envy (green), Majestic (purple), Black Magic (black).

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Blue Blood

Blue Blue is a sky blue which I find pleasant because most blue mascaras are navy blue and very subtle. This blue is bright and unique. I have never seen a sky blue mascara, the brightest blue I have seen is this cobalt blue from MAC a few years ago, which is now discontinued. I wore this on a rainy Saturday afternoon and it added a pop of funky colour against my more subdued makeup of that day.

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Blue Blood

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Envy

Envy is a dark forest green and it is very pretty. In artificial light it looked off black but in natural light it looks obviously green. It is the most subtle colour in the collection. This could be a nice colour for ladies who wants to try colour mascara but are wary to try colours that are more vibrant. Green will make brown eyes “pop”.

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Envy

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Majestic

Majestic is a lovely shade of lavender. This and Blood Blue are the most vibrant colours in the mascara collection. Like Blood Blue, Majestic is the lightest and brightest purple mascara I have tried. Most purple mascaras I have tried are a deep violet or aubergine colour. I find the lavender very refreshing and funky.  If you are not afraid of colour and want people to see a more obvious pop of colour on your lashes, Majestic and Blood Blood are the best options.

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Majestic

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Black Magic

Black Magic is black. The colour is pretty self explanatory, it is a classic and basic black mascara that is in every mascara collection. This is a not the blackest mascara I have tried but it makes my lashes look very natural and adds a bit of oomph to it; however, I don’t think it is very volumizing.

Above: Medusa’s Makeup Volume for Electric Lashes Mascara in Black Magic

Also check out my previous Medusa’s Makeup Electric Mascara for more pictures!

EOTD MAC Kohl Power Liner Sense of Style, Product Picture, Swatches and Review

Above: MAC Kohl Power Liner in Sense of Style

MAC Kohl Power Liner in Sense of Style was released with the Love Lace collection in December 2009. It is a dark grayish blue with subtle blue shimmer. The colour is pretty and it is not overly bright and over the top, so girls who are wary of colour may want to give this a try if they are looking for a little bit of colour. The shimmer in it gives the liner a nice effect, as well. Although it  is a dark blacken blue, it looks distinctively blue in all kinds of lighting. Like all kohl liners, this liner is not smudge proof or waterproof. I find that this colour smudges more than Raven in the same collection, because it is a darker colour. Kohl liners are meant to be smudged and is usually paired with a smokey eyed look. I don’t think Sense of Style is extremely unique but I don’t own any smokey blue liners, so I picked one up. It is a pretty colour and I think it would look hot heavily lined for a blue smokey eye.

Above: MAC Kohl Power Liner in Sense of Style

Above: MAC Kohl Power Liner in Sense of Style

Above: MAC Kohl Power Liner in Sense of Style